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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
Thu May 7, 2020, 02:30 PM May 2020

Republicans, pressing forward with convention amid coronavirus, bring on medical adviser

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Party officials, pressing forward with plans to hold an in-person national convention, have hired a senior medical adviser to help “pave a safe path” for the event in August amid the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News has learned.

The Republican National Convention is expected to be held Aug. 24-27 in Charlotte, N.C.

“We are fully committed to an in-person event in August,” a GOP convention official told Fox News. “We’re forging ahead as originally planned.”

The official told Fox News that the Republican National Committee has hired Dr. Jeffrey Runge, a leading national health security official and medical practitioner, to join the GOP convention team as a senior adviser for Health and Safety Planning.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/republicans-pressing-forward-with-convention-amid-coronavirus-bring-on-medical-adviser/ar-BB13KjDc?li=BBnb7Kz

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Republicans, pressing forward with convention amid coronavirus, bring on medical adviser (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
Let the self-culling continue. Squinch May 2020 #1
Go forth and spread Covid-19 malaise May 2020 #2
Great news! Renew Deal May 2020 #3
GO FOR IT IDIOTS!!! bluestarone May 2020 #4
On the plus side, we should be able to trace their contacts easily... Moostache May 2020 #5
Be fruitful and multiply.... assholes world wide wally May 2020 #6
I'm cool with that. Pacifist Patriot May 2020 #7
F*ck all of them. SaschaHM May 2020 #8
Dr. Jeffrey Runge nykym May 2020 #9
Late August gathering would mean by mid- Sept & well into Oct, they'll be sick or dying by.. Budi May 2020 #10
Come ahead, covidiots! littlemissmartypants May 2020 #11
I bet they have reserved tens of thousands of tests for those days. lark May 2020 #12

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
5. On the plus side, we should be able to trace their contacts easily...
Thu May 7, 2020, 02:43 PM
May 2020

Fuck 'em...I hope they all die horrible, lonely gasping deaths. Pray to Jeebus to stop the lining of your lungs from sloughing off, maybe it will help, what have you got to lose?

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)
8. F*ck all of them.
Thu May 7, 2020, 02:47 PM
May 2020

Charlotte is the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in my state. The last thing that we need is more jackasses that underestimate the dangers of this virus running around the city after we get things under a semblance of control.

Why don't conservatives ever hold their events in Rural enclaves and just make due with the infrastructure there?

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
10. Late August gathering would mean by mid- Sept & well into Oct, they'll be sick or dying by..
Thu May 7, 2020, 03:12 PM
May 2020

...by election day in November.

Hope they all show up unmasked in a crowded room.

littlemissmartypants

(22,656 posts)
11. Come ahead, covidiots!
Thu May 7, 2020, 03:35 PM
May 2020

Mecklenburg County has over 1,900 confirmed cases today with more than 50 in the last 24 hours. It shares borders with more than five counties each reporting over 100 cases each today. The area should be good and ripe for the convention.

lark

(23,099 posts)
12. I bet they have reserved tens of thousands of tests for those days.
Thu May 7, 2020, 04:08 PM
May 2020

Either that or Hair Furor will have to be secluded and he won't allow that. We can all hope for the best - for America.

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